The Past, Present and Future

Throughout the last 50 years, humanity has witnessed many changes that have attired and changed our lives in many ways. The emergence of technology in our lives, for example, has caused life to become simpler by making connections easier between people. Changes such as these have caused many differences between each generation. Whilst comparing the life of our generation and our parent’s generation we can see that various aspects have changed Like technology, education and life style.

Through the last two decades we’ve witnessed a rise In aspects that we laden know of before. Technology Is an Issue that our generation was greatly Influenced and affected by. Through the Internet new ways of connections, were brought to the table making life easier for our generation. In the olden days one had to go through uphill efforts In order to simply contact another person, however nowadays due to social media, connections between people are Just one click away. The swift and easy going interactions that social media Imposed on us changed the way of life between the two generations completely.

Likewise: education is one of the aspects that blossomed in our modern days causing dissimilarities between this generation and the past generation. Due to the common awareness that we have been exposed to regarding the importance of education in life, education has become more easily accessible for people of different classes of the society. Numbers of educated people in our generation has increased tremendously comparing to our parent’s generation. Educational institutions have now new and more technological ways of teaching.

On the contrary education in the past generation was limited to the local institutions; international schools and universities were few and too expensive. Also, the education method in the past generation differs from the methods we’re using now; our parents’ educational system mainly depended on spoon-feeding. In these days we are taught to think more critically, deeper, and outside the box. Another aspect that changed between the two generations is their lifestyles. Due to media and the globalization of media our perspective and opinions about various issues have changed.

For example, because of open portrait of sex, alcohol and drugs in movies, our generation view these somehow controversial topics as mediocre, In our generation these issues are being practiced more abundantly while in the past these issues were viewed as immorally. Also you can clearly see differences In the smallest details of our life like music. For Instance; the past generation’s taste In music was more appropriate, inspirational, motivational and positive storytelling than this generation’s.

Songs like “Man In the Mirror” had a positive meaning behind their lyrics “I’m starting with the man In the mirror. I’m asking him to change his ways. And no message could have been any clearer. If you want to make the world a better place. Take a look at yourself, and then make a change. ” Michael Jackson. “Man in the Mirror. ” Race. May 1987. Bad. Michael Jackson, Quince lyrical kinds of music, like Electronic Dance Music. Artists like Michael Jackson, The Battles and Affair aren’t as popular as they were before.

Also, words like “Rave” “PLURAL” and “#Damselfly” are now being used despite the fact that they weren’t known before. To put it in a nutshell, we can easily see the differences of our generation and our parent’s generation in many aspects like technology, education and lifestyle. It’s natural, and as Jim Morrison said “Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors”. We can easily relate that the next generations will be even more different than our generation.